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Hey, good people, this is Torre Roberts. Blessings to you and welcome to the ONE Podcast. I'm excited that you're here. ONE is a community of dynamic and vibrant thought leaders, preachers, teachers, and just a community of wonderful people all together. And we're excited to bring you this weekly podcast from our services from ONE in la. If you haven't been the One, I encourage you to check it out. You can go to One the Word one O N E online and find out all about the service times and all about the teachers and all the philanthropic things that we have going. I believe you're going to be blessed to be a part of it. And speaking of being blessed, we're getting ready to get into a teaching right now that I believe is going to bless you. So tune in, enjoy, and I'll be back with you at the end.
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Hey, I'm gonna start preaching. They're gonna pass the buckets.
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Just let them come on by.
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It's all right.
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We gotta move where the Spirit says go. Oh my God.
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You get that seed in the ground.
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You'Re about to get returned right now.
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Cause this word that God is about to give you, I'm so excited about it because God actually spoke to me.
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Before, right after I spoke the last time about what to preach today.
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And the fact that I am blown.
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Away by is that it threads together every message that has been preached since then.
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And so God is wrapping something up in us today, not as an ending, but as a cementing and affirming a way to move forward and stay in all that God has given us in these last days to equip this revival.
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Movement for what we are about to do tomorrow and next week and next.
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Month and all year long and next year and next year and next year and next year. God is so kind to give us.
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This revelation that not only are we a movement, but we are revival movement. Because every major revival movement is named in retrospect. When it was happening, they didn't know it was happening.
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They didn't just get up one day and be like, I think today we should start the Jesus movement. It just swept. And they had to scramble to something to call it. As soon as it just street, Holy Ghost just fell. They weren't like, let's go to Azusa street. Because we think that would be a.
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Really good place to go.
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We'll call it that and then we'll wait. It didn't happen. People often and you can miss something when God is doing it and you don't realize that you might get in late.
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But he's given us grace to tell us we are a revival movement. It's happening. It's not coming. It's happening. It's here. It's here. It's here. What did I, I. I'm your pastor, but I'm a prophet of God.
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And did I not speak it from the Lord almost every Sunday last year? Revival is coming. Revival is coming. Revival is coming. And we're here. We're not coming anymore.
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We're here.
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And God is about to shift some things. When he had me walk out here to this front earlier and. And stand here, he told me to stand here and face the platform. I stood there and I could feel the throngs of people pressing into the space, coming into the space. Souls.
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My God. And then Kyle Rock, Pastor Kyle walked.
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Right up here and prophetically flowed.
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Come to the altar. Was it altar time?
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No. Was it altar time? Yes. We gotta be ready.
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Because God, revival, divine kingdom, realignment, that is our mission. That was what makes us a revival movement. And God is going to prosper it more and more.
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And so if anybody remembers the last.
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Time I stood up here to preach a sermon, and not just a holler, send to glory. It was Ephesians 3:20. And we read about the posture that's required for abundance. I want to read that again. Ephesians 3. We're going to start at verse 14. If you weren't here and you haven't had a chance to catch it online, please. The message is called make room for more. I want you to go through all of these sermons that are part of this revival event. Ephesians 3:14. For this reason, I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named. We learned that the first thing that we need to do to be a position for abundance is to be submitted. Bowed knees. Verse 16.
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That he would grant you according to.
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The riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might through his spirit and the inner man of vulnerability. That Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.
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That you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints. What is the width and length and.
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Depth and height to know Connection with all the saints.
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Submission, vulnerability, connection. To know the love of Christ which.
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Passes knowledge that love is the ultimate posture, that you may be filled with.
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All the fullness of God. So we learn that this is my posture for the next thing. Now, to him who is able to do exceedingly, abundantly, above all that we ask or think According to the power that worketh in us, there's our abundance. We had that submission, we had that connection, we have that vulnerability. We're standing in his love and that opens us up for his exceeding abundant above our ask or think beyond what we feel like we can tolerate. He's going to pour out into us and that he's going to stretch our capacity so that we could receive more. Above all we ask or think according to the power that works in us. So we're making more space for more power.
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So.
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So I read you a passage that day about enlarging your tent, extending your cords, strengthening your stakes so that you have space for more. Because the thing about overflow, it's exciting, but it's not exciting if it happens so fast because your internal capacity was so small. I want overflow to take longer and longer and longer and longer because I have so much capacity for abundance to fill me up. Not because I don't want overflow to hit you, but I want more capacity.
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According to the power that's working in me, man alive.
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You can have abundance or you can have overflow from 1 to 8 ounces or you can have a overflow from a water tower, you know what I'm saying? And think about that. If I got an 8 ounce measuring cup on my counter and it starts to overflow, who is it going to get to? But if my water tower level abundance started overflowing, who's it going to fall on? The bigger oh, we build big people here at one we build big people. So verse 20 said that now untamed, who's able to do exceedingly, abundantly above.
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All that we ask or think according to the power that works in us.
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To him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen. Next verse for this week. Ephesians 4:1 I this is Paul talking, therefore that means based on what we just talked about, therefore the prisoner of the Lord.
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I'm a prisoner. I'm a prisoner.
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And some days I'm so happy to be a prisoner because I'm being kept safe away from things that don't need to get to me. And some days being a prisoner feels more painful. But there's nobody's prisoner. I'd rather be me a prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling where which you were.
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Called with all lowliness and gentleness, with long suffering, bearing with one another how.
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In love, endeavoring to keep the what unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. I believe Pastor Phil came in here and told us that we have to allow the anointing of unity to get this done. But right before he said that, our apostle told us the bones of this place and what made us one. Verse 4. There is what one body and what one spirit, just as you were called in what one hope of your calling, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all and through all.
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All and in you all look at your neighbor and say, walk worthy. Grab your seats. I gotta preach real fast. I'm gonna teach you to walk worthy and I'm gonna run teaching it to you because we're gonna take communion today. We're gonna take communion today. We're gonna seal with this sacred moment of communion. We're gonna seal what God has equipped us with over these days. Amen.
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Walk worthy.
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My mom first gave me, brought my attention to this verse when I was a teenager. She was going on about how grateful she was to have the opportunity to preach the gospel. That what it meant to her to tarry for hours.
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If you didn't grow up in church.
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That word tarry means stay at the altar with people and pray until something happens. And I would go with her to revival services and storefront churches on inner city corners in North New Jersey and Harlem, N.Y. and drug addicts would stumble in and unhoused people would stumble in, and mentally ill people who had not been treated would stumble in.
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And she would stay on the altar long after church was over, much like you saw Pastor Torre do on Wednesday night. Laid hands on like 500 plus people. And we stayed there till 2, 2:30 something in the morning, because that's a way of tarrying with people. I'm gonna stay with you till God meets you. And I watched her do that. And she stayed there and she would.
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Lay there and she.
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It would mean so much to her to see an addiction broken and to see someone get filled with the Holy Ghost and start to speak in tongues for the first time. It meant something to her to do that. She taught me how to do that. We called, I call it trench work. It's not green room work. Trench work.
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Ah, Jesus. And we were left church one night and we're riding home in the car and she began to just talk about.
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How blessed she felt.
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And as a woman who was told she shouldn't be preaching, that God kept using her anyway.
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And she looked at me and she said, anita, you have an anointing.
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You have a calling on your life.
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And this is the only Thing you.
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Need to do, Walk worthy. She said, you'll never be worthy, but walk worthy anyway. It's a different thing. So what does it mean to do that?
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That word walk is referring to two things.
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Your daily conduct, how you behave. It does matter. Yes. God knows your heart and also he would like to see your walk.
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We gotta. We gotta move past the God knows.
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My heart areas at some point that.
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Other people can also see your heart.
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By how you behave. I lost my temper and I cussed them out. God knows my heart. Okay, but that person you cussed out does not. Or maybe they do, since the Bible says out of the abundance of the heart. Okay.
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And so we will say that God knows my heart. It's just another way of a spiritual.
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Way of saying, I meant, well, I'm not a bad person. I'm sorry, but we want to have our behavior actually aligned with Scripture. We should become different externally over time.
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Walking with God. So it's our daily conduct, but it.
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Is also our embodied pattern of life.
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The thing that threads together everything we do.
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And often we don't know exactly what that is. But we'll get back to that. The word worthy. I love this. It doesn't mean good enough. It means proportionate to proportionate to. I want to walk worthy in proportion to what God has allowed me to walk in. To whom much is given, much is required.
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Walk worthy.
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You at 8 ounces a cup. Walk worthy for that. You at water tower abundance. Walk worthy of that. Let your gratefulness to God be reflected in the proportion that you give in your walk to him. It's going to be easier than ever too, if you receive that insatiable hunger for the kingdom today. It's going to be easier than ever. So there's a proportionate issue. It's aligned with the value of something. How do I feel about this thing? The value that it is.
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And finally, that word calling, it's not.
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Calling like we use it in church currently. Like I'm called to preach or called to teach or called to pastor.
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That word actually means an invitation, a divine invitation into a way of being. Can you conduct yourself in a way that is proportionate to the massive invitation that you have received? Oh, my God. And what an invitation it is. Maybe some of you got a chance to attend a Grammy party this week. Maybe you were at the intro level.
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Grammy party and it was a Grammy cookout.
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And you showed up in your. In your best jeans and T shirt.
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You responded in proportion to the invitation that you received.
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But tonight, somebody is going to have.
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The opportunity for the first time to stand on the stage and present a Grammy.
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And they're not going to probably show up in the outfit from the cookout for the Grammy hopefuls one day. They coming in Siriano, they're coming in Versace, they coming in some custom stuff. They haven't eaten in weeks. They are hungry. If they see another piece of boiled chicken, they might lose their entire mind. But they've been trying to walk worthy of the magnitude of the invitation. In a world that says you show up looking a certain way in order for us to believe that you care about our rules and our values. Oh. Oh, my God. Stated or unstated. Now maybe they get a dress code printout. I don't know. I'm not privy to such circles. But I'm sure they don't get something that says eat boiled chicken for a month. So on the red carpet you can body, yada, yada. It is not there. But they have been striving to walk worthy of the proportion, the proportion of.
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What they value about the invitation they have received.
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What do you feel about the value of the invitation? To be on this cutting front edge of a revival movement that's going to shake an entire city and region and globe. How will you walk? What are you willing to do? Do we have to call the fast or you just gonna flip your plate? Does it always have? Yes. It's nice to do things together, but sometimes we only do it with the group because we feel guilty if we don't. But this new hunger for God is gonna make some of you start to live a fasted lifestyle. You. Where did I eat the last time? I don't even know. But I've been on my face in my prayer closet because God gave me a dream about 20 faces that he wants to save. And I don't know them, but I'mma pray them through. I'm walking worthy because this invitation.
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Walk worthy of the invitation. Oh, God, I love this generation. Because y' all are not shy about saying what you think, Showing people how you feel. This is just what God's been waiting for. Oh, walk worthy. So that's it. Walk in a way that corresponds to the invitation you have already received. Two reasons. Quickly. And actually, I'm not even going to go to quickly. The first one is distraction.
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One of the reasons we don't walk.
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Worthy, we're easily distracted.
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You think that all you have to do to walk worthy is be obedient.
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But disobedience is not the actual problem. It's a symptom the issue is a distraction because we're talking.
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I'm talking to people who know Jesus, even though those of you who don't.
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Know Jesus, something stirring inside of you right now.
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Like, I really want to know Jesus, because this woman looked like she knows somebody serious. But for those of us who have known him, of course we're not waking in the morning.
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Like, how do I disobey God today?
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Can't wait, said nobody, ever. But some distraction. Hebrews 12:1 tells us, Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay.
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Aside every weight and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race set before us.
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Those weights and those sins that get me easily are the ones that come from me just being distracted. And I want to change it to a way for you to look at distracted. It's about prioritization and it's about the things that I insist on bringing with me on my race. You need to run a race. Lightweight. When I'm training to run a half marathon, when I'm training to run a team relay or anyway, I like to run, I'm training. I'm not out there. I'm out there with ankle weights. I'm purposely running uphill. I'm training. But when it's time to run the race, I got to take off the weight. I don't run the race with the weights on. It's time to move. And so we have to be willing to go to our next place in God without some of the things that kept us feeling safe and comfortable in the last place. Some of this stuff, you just got to lay it down. I'll do what God said do. But that makes me uncomfortable. I don't want to be vulnerable. I don't want to be unsafe. I don't want to be in a place where the people. I don't know them, or I think I have to protect myself. I can't just open up this way. I can't just move over there. I can't just. Yes, you can. You have to stop letting your fears weigh you down. But these are things that you can.
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Decide within your conscious mind. That sin that easily gets you. You already know what it is with your conscious mind.
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You can make a decision to block.
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Yourself from those things.
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That's not your greatest problem, but it is one. And so look at that distraction. But that aspect of the embodied pattern.
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Of how you live is the major.
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Reason why you don't walk worthy.
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Even when you try is because you are disorganized.
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But this organization doesn't mean at base what you think it means. It doesn't just mean, I got a.
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Bunch of papers on my desk, and I don't know know which paper is which, and I cannot find the W2 when it's tax time, you know, you put it somewhere where you wanted to forget where it was, and now you can't find nothing. And you say, oh, I'm so disorganized.
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The pile of paper on your desk is not the disorganization. The problem is that desk was not.
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Purposed.
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To be covered with a bunch of mess. The word disorganization is based on the root word organon, which means something fitted for purpose. And so if I am disorganized, it means that the purpose that it was fitted for has been abandoned or misused. So the desk is not disorganized because it's not the papers that are disorganized, it's the desk. The desk is supposed to give you space to put things and to file things properly and to have place to work. And when you don't use it that way, you are now disorganizing the desk. You are breaking purpose that it was made for. And so when we try to walk worthy, we were trying it, but somewhere.
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In our hearts, we're disorganized.
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Because your heart is meant to be the receptacle of the word of God.
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You're supposed to hide his word in your heart.
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It's meant to be a place where when his word gets in there, life.
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Comes up out of it. It's a well watered garden.
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The soil is fertile and good, but if you dig down underneath the soil, you hit water.
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And it's a place that's supposed to be ready for us to go out.
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And look the thoughts and intents. That's the stuff you don't know about. Genesis 6 said, Then the Lord saw the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of.
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The thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. This is not a figure of speech, and it really means mind. No, it really means heart. There are 40,000 neurons on the surface of your heart. Your heart thinks, but you don't hear those thoughts like the ones in your mind.
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The ones in your mind are actually.
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Just the echo of the silent ones that have been decided in your heart.
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Those neurons fire first, and then the signal gets sent up. So do not I need y'.
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All.
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Please don't look at your Bible. That was a figure of speech. At the time if he made hearts, don't you think the maker of your heart knows what he's talking about when he says heart? Don't believe it because I just told you about the neurons. Believe it because God said it. But anyway, 1st Chronicles 28 as for.
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You my son Solomon, know the God of your Father and serve him with a loyal heart and with a willing mind. That's why heart is first and mind is second.
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Uhuh.
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For the Lord searches all hearts, not.
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All minds, and understands all the intent of the thoughts, those intentions. You don't even know why you did.
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What you did when you did it.
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Don't tell me ain't nobody in here like me that ever was sitting on the edge of your bed, wondering why in the world did I do that? What am I doing here? Why? Why did I smoke that, drink that, lie about that, spend that, quit that.
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Oh Jesus, your thoughts intense and your thoughts. I'm Gonna give you one more Hebrews verse 4. It says, Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest. I'm gonna start at verse 11, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience.
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That's an action. For the word of God is living.
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And powerful and sharper than any two.
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Edged sword, piercing even to the division.
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Of soul and spirit.
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And I'm joined to marrow and is a discerner of the thoughts of and intent of the heart.
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It's not the disobedience, it's what's going on underneath. We have to understand when the scripture we encounter the phrase thoughts and intents of the heart is describing something deeper than ideas or emotions. It is the actual inner formation, the inner man. Remember that inner man that we have to let be fully understood and discerned by God. Even when it's hidden or confusing to us. If you've ever done something and said why did I do that? You understand what I'm talking about. These things are important because it will undermine our walking worthy.
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But in order to do this, I.
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Want you to understand the heart as an ocean. Proverbs 25 says, Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out. Psalm 64:6.
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They devise iniquities. They have perfected a shrewd scheme. Both the inward thought of the heart.
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Of the man are deep. Proverbs 4:23. Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring what the issues of life.
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We know that rivers flowing all over.
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The earth all eventually drain back down underground. And end up in the ocean. Proverbs 18:4. The words of a man's mouth are deep waters. The wellspring of wisdom is a flowing brook. If the words of his mouth are deep waters, and out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. Okay, Luke 6:45. A good man, out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good. An evil man, out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. It is deep water.
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This is the way that the earth is made.
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So soil is not dry by nature. There's always water moving through it. So, yes, your heart is soil, but if you go underneath, that water goes down, it becomes groundwater. It feeds the rivers, and the rivers flow into the ocean. And we have to recognize that the soil is where the water is received.
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We pour it on your heart. But the ocean is where it's held in depth.
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That's the areas that we don't know. We know more about what's in outer space than we know about the ocean. As a matter of fact, before outer space exploration really blew up, they were trying to go deep water, but they couldn't get down there. The pressure of deep water was crushing.
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It was more dangerous than getting in.
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A rocket and going to the moon.
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You have no idea what's going on down there. Deep in that water, they got crushed creatures down there with lights hanging off their head, looking like skeletons. You don't know what's swimming around down in there. Jesus.
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But it matters, because there was another.
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Message preached about a man named Jonah. Who, when he was given a word from the Lord to do something, he decided he didn't want to go that way. So he went to Nineveh. He. He said he went because he didn't like them, but it was a deeper reason. Anger and pride were in his heart. He didn't want to go. You read the Book of Jonah, all four long chapters.
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You can do it.
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He says the reason Jonah pastor had preached it last week, the reason Jonah was angry after God gave him the word, he goes back. Y' all know the fish gets him. He goes back. He goes and gives them the word, God's going to destroy you. They all repent. So God doesn't destroy them. And then he says, I knew you.
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Was going to do that.
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You going to make me tell him you're going to destroy him and then you don't do it. And that makes me look bad. He wasn't just, I don't like the Ninevites.
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That was his surface reason. That was his behavioral reason. But he didn't even really realize his pride and anger actually messed him up. So when that sea went to raging.
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Jonah was in a boat on the.
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Surface of his own heart. Baby.
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The turbulence of his own heart was wishing and washing and blowing that boat around and about to kill everybody else around him. Because just out of the abundance of overflow of God's life onto people, the abundance overflow. Overflow of my mess onto people, as Pastor Ed preached, will mess people up. So Jonah was in a boat on the water, but God was showing us his heart. And so when they said, throw me off, God said, throw over. Deal with yourself. And then God sent a big fish to get him. See those things swimming around down there?
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God brought him in contact with some of his truth. Look at yourself for a minute. And that thing got him. And he got uncomfortable enough to say.
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I'll do the thing you said do, but not uncomfortable enough to say, I'll be who you told me to be. And so Jonah changed direction, but he did not change the direction of his heart. Because he still didn't catch it. So he got the work done.
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There was revival in Nineveh, but he was about to be lost. One family. Babies, I love you so much.
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There's no way I want to see 30,000 people pressing their way into the.
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Kingdom through this revival movement.
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And you who got called to leave the edge of it be lost. Please hear me. Your heart is everything. I need you to walk out of here so hungry for God. God, give me my why. Clean it out. Turn me around. I don't want to mess this up for me. Because his will's gonna get done. Stop begging, God. Show me your will. Show me your will. Thou show me me. Because God's will for Nineveh got done.
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But Jonah sat on the edge of a mountain so mad and prideful, he.
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Was willing to die.
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Because God made him look bad.
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Hey.
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I asked God to help me create an image to show you how our hearts are made. Can y' all please show them that image? You see that? Down in that ocean of the heart, the boat on that water? And what are they letting down in the water? Matthew 4:19. He said to them, follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. We go after the hearts of men, not their minds. We want them to receive Jesus into their hearts. And when God uses us to do that, we capture their deep. He's going down deep. Their intentions, the thing that they didn't even know they needed until they were in the presence of God, where fishers of men were capturing hearts.
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But what's in yours?
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If I took a dragnet down there, what would I catch? You don't even know.
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We don't even know what deep creatures.
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Are in our own ocean and that we see. But this one, this one we need to know. I want this seared in your mind. What is happening in the depths of my heart. Fish me out so that I can be a fisher of men. I believe one of Jonah's raggedy, raggedy intentions, God brought it to the surface and got him. What's swimming around down there? It makes so much difference. I, I was watching some videos this weekend and I was reading some stuff online. There's some argument about it, but I feel like it's a worthy argument that during the transatlantic slave trade, sharks followed enslavement boats for those decades that it was happening. Some scientists are arguing that it changed the migration patterns of the sharks because they followed the bloody trail. They smell blood and they followed it. And so they began to move in different patterns than they had before because they knew where they could get death. And that even after there's arguments back and forth, but there's evidence that suggests that even after it left some imprint on the migration patterns of these sharks because they learned where the death was. Some of you, There are some underwater patterns you still chase the thing that will let you be prideful. Under here you can engrave to God be the glory on the trophy. You can say I give glory to his name when they give it to you. But underneath the water, did you just swim straight for the thing? Is it a generational pattern you were taught not to trust and so you swim straight towards the thing that would suggest that this person isn't who they say they are. You don't trust nobody. You swim constantly after the, the scent of distrust. The patterns have changed because you were taught that that's how it goes. So generationally you received it. They, they, they have argued that there was an ecological impact that lasted beyond the slave trade because of the pattern change in the water. And I believe that happens to us with generational impact. What's swimming around down there, that's always seeking something that's going to kill you. You instead of seeking the life of God, you gotta work that thing out.
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You don't know. So what do I do if I don't know?
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I got you. Jude, chapter one, verse 20. But you beloved, building yourself up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit. There is A reason why we pray in the Spirit, because we don't know what to say.
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We can get so caught up.
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This is the mental health generation. And y' all know I'm happy about it. I worked hard to be a part of it. But we have gotten so much information and so much capacity in our hands.
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To help ourselves that sometimes we forget that the first place we need to go, not the only place, but the.
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First place, is to the Spirit. And so there's another verse that says in the Bible, that's. Read the whole Bible, you'll find it. To quote our apostle that says that.
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We pray in the Holy Ghost because the Spirit maketh groanings and utterings. It says things that we don't have words for and understand. That is of understanding to God and not us. I don't know how to pray for what's going on in my heart, but the Holy Spirit knows how to pray it through me, for me. And so now I'm gonna give you two ways to get that done. If you have ever received the Holy Ghost infilling, as in Acts 2, with the evidence of speaking in other tongues, that is one way to do it. And we are underutilizing it. How many people in here have received that gift? There's nothing wrong with you if you haven't. There's a lot of folks who said, yes, we are not praying in tongues enough. We wait until something is wrong, until we're super stressed out, or until we get excited and it's like, then we want to do it. Honey, every day when you wake up in the morning, let the Holy Ghost pray out your mouth. We used to do it constantly, all the time. My mom used to pray in tongues so much that I had to pour a dress to get her attention. I remember one time I had a friend come over and they heard my mom praying in tongues in the bathroom. And they said, I didn't know your mom spoke Spanish. I said, oh, yeah, because it was too much to explain. It was too much to explain. And my friend wasn't a Spanish speaker. They just was guessing. They didn't know what was going on. But we are not doing. We start praying in tongues when we got a problem, but we want to rebuke somebody or we want to solve a problem. It says, building yourself up, praying in your most holy faith, the Holy Ghost prayer. Now, if you have not received that.
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Gift yet with that evidence, number two, you can have it. We'll get to that another service soon.
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But even it's.
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There's another verse where it talks about just the groans.
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Just.
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Just turn your whole spirit attention toward God and just say.
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Oh, my grandmother, my great grandmother, honey, they broke some curses off some people on the front steps going, jesus, oh, Jesus, oh, God.
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And watch what happens.
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You pray too smart, you talk too much. You in the prayer closet just rambling, ain't got you nowhere. Just, oh, my. If you just make a sound that sounds like how you feel and let that come out to God, the spirit of God will start showing up in your space. I'm telling you, you gonna have to do some stuff that don't make no sense. And you never know, one of y' all this week is going to let out a sound and some other language is going to come out your mouth. Don't get scared. We are going to have to move in the Holy Ghost, not just to see him in the earth, but for our hearts to be built up. I'm almost finished because I'm way over.
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Time and we got to take communion. But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit. If you've been given the language of prayer that you pray in your private, use it. If you don't got it. Groanings and just keep your eyes towards God. Imagine Jesus sitting next to his father on the throne, praying for you. Just imagine that image and just Jesus, that thing is going to come.
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All right.
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Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ into eternal life. So again, the love of God. You cannot do this without walking in love. And unity's not coming any other way. And on. Some have compassion making a distinction in the King James, it says, making a difference. But others saved with fear, pulling them out of the fire, hating even the garment defiled by the flesh. Keep fishing, men. Pray in the spirit, fish for men. That means share the gospel, bring people to church, call people, offer to pray for them, do anything you can to pull people into the kingdom of God. Yes, use wisdom. The Bible says we go out wise as serpents, harmless as doves. Don't go out there and be a crazy person and stand up in the middle of the bus and start speaking in tongues and say, come to the kingdom, Come together, and then say that one told you to.
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Portofavour.
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No, no. And you know, in some ways it's easier to do that than to turn to the person, you know, who you don't want to think about you differently and say, I was praying last night and I prayed for you. Is there anything else in specific? I Can pray for you, for that scares you more than standing up in the middle of a bus. That's why people be out there doing that stuff, because you're scared to do the thing that's actually scary to you. I got to go. I got to go. I got to go. Got to go.
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And so it seems that if you.
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Were praying the Holy Spirit, if you.
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Continue to fish for men and you.
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Would keep yourselves in the love of God, that heart will start getting fixed. Because verse 24 says now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling, he's able to keep you from what you can't keep yourself from when you turn your attention to let him do the thing you can't do and to present you faultless, not perfection. You're chasing perfection. But he wants to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy. To God our Savior, who alone is wise, be glory, majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen. Stand to your feet because we have a mission and Pastor Sarah wrapped it up for us. Matthew 11:12. And from the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force. What does that mean? Because she preached that on Friday night. Pastor Phil preached about it on Thursday night. And if you aren't following along or you don't know the word as well yet, you. They may have sounded like contradictory messages, but they were not. He talked about what it takes to walk in unity. We shouldn't be wrestling with each other. Unity comes from the flow of the anointing. We should be wrestling with each other. What this verse means is that there was such an urgency. It's not violence like attack.
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It's so I'm so urgently trying to get there. That is a force that I'm coming after everything that God has for me, me in the kingdom and bringing other.
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People in with me. And that's how we're going to move urgently. The kingdom of heaven suffers violence.
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People are urgently going to receive what the kingdom have and the violent taken by force. I'm coming for what God has for me. Devil, you're not going to get no more of my life from me. I'm going to fight you every day and I'm going to win. I'mma fight with my mind every day. The things I'm aware of. I'm going to lay aside every weight I'm going to cast aside, decide the sin that easily besets me. I'm gonna lay in my prayer closet with that deep heart open and pray in the spirit. God change me. And then I'm gonna bring people into the kingdom. I'm gonna be so focused on the work of God.
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That's what this verse is saying.
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And so when Pastor Sarah said we're going to be those people that are.
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Taken by force, this city's not going to know what happened. The way we going to run out into these streets because we are going to walk worthy of this invitation. Does anybody want to do that? Amen. Amen. All right, let me behave. I gotta go. Is there anybody here who doesn't know Jesus? You have not yet locked in with Jesus as a lifestyle, that he's your everything, that you want to be like Jesus. You want to know Jesus better, you want to experience his love, you want to have a new heart because you don't know why you do some of the things that you do. But you know, it's not bringing you the life that you want, not in external things, but that sense of meaning, your sense of purpose is off. You're disorganized and you want to have a sense of actual purpose. And you've been looking for it. It's in Jesus. The Bible says repent and receive Jesus. That word repent means change your purpose. It doesn't mean be super, super sorry for your sin. It means change your purpose. See the world differently through the lens of Jesus. Does anybody want a new purpose, one that will never, ever let them down? If you don't know Jesus in that way, just slip your hand up. I want to invite you to know him. I see you.
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Hey.
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Hey. New purpose today.
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Anybody else?
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Hallelujah. I'm going to ask you to answer a couple questions real quick. Do you believe that Jesus was the son of God? Can you say yes if you do?
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Hey, do you believe that Jesus loves.
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You so much that he died so.
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That you could be in relationship with.
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His father, God in heaven? Say yes if you do. Yes.
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Do you believe he rose from the dead and is now back in heaven.
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Praying for you that your faith will never fail?
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Yes. Welcome to the family of God. You are with us. Hallelujah.
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Hey, family. Well, I pray that you were just as blessed by this teaching as I was. I'm just so grateful again to be a part of a dynamic community full of love, full of revelation and wisdom. One has been a movement that's been blessing people for over two decades, and I'm so glad that you got an opportunity to experience it. I also have a podcast called the called it's right here on wherever you're listening to this Spotify or Apple or wherever you're listening to this podcast, you can just look up the call. T H E C A L L E D with myself, Ture Roberts. This is designed for entrepreneurs, leaders and business people. It's a weekly podcast and it will bless you. But hey, I enjoyed having you here. Meet us here next week. Check out the call. Much blessings to you. We'll come catch you next time.