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Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver
Episode: Day of the Sons – Part-2
Publishing Date: 2021-06-20T06:00:44-07:00
Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca
Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/day-of-the-sons-part-2/

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Does Jane know you're behind the board?

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Okay.

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Alright, guys, so today we talk about Day of the Sun's Part 2.

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We did this yesterday, we started yesterday, so you'll have to go and listen to yesterday's first part,

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if you want to have a background on the second part.

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So, even though it's Father's Day, the title of the teaching is Day of the Sun's Part 2.

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And yesterday we looked at Psalm 45, 16 and 17.

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Sheldon, I hope you're making notes.

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Okay.

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Psalm 45, verse 16 and 17.

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This is commitment, huh?

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You get six months free probation.

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Psalm 45, verse 16 and 17, it says,

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Your sons will take the place of your fathers, you will make them princes throughout the land.

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I will perpetuate your memory through all generations, therefore the nations will praise you forever and ever.

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So, the reason we are talking about this on Father's Day is because any father has a desire to see his son perpetuate his name.

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That is the intent.

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Every father has a desire to see his name perpetuated by his son.

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And so every father has a desire that the sons will take the place of their fathers.

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And that they will rule as regents in the land that the father has.

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And this was the intent that the father had in Genesis where he looked at Adam and said, Adam, you're my son.

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He used to call Adam the son of God.

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Luke 3.38 talks about it.

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And then he says that, listen, Adam, you're my son and I want you to be my regent, as in the one who rules on my behalf.

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I want you to perpetuate my name and that is why I made you after my image and likeness so that you take on my kind.

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I trust you.

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That was the intent.

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And so on Father's Day to speak of the Day of the Sons is just perfect because that's what fathers actually desire.

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And when revival awakens any people, God becomes visibly available as father.

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God becomes visibly available as father.

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That's one of the things that becomes evident in any genuine revival.

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God becomes visibly available as a father.

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And he becomes visibly available as a father with his heart, with his nature, with his function, with his approach, with his motivation.

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That becomes most evident.

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The unfortunate thing is though that Satan also functions the same way.

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Jesus called him the father of lies.

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The unfortunate thing is that Satan functions the same way and in Ephesians 2 we see that he is raising children of disobedience who follow the father of lies.

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So fatherhood is not limited to the kingdom.

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Everything in the satanic kingdom, everything in the non-Christ kingdom is a counterfeit of what has been started by the father.

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There's nothing creative that the devil can do.

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He has never invented a single thing.

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He only counterfeits what is good.

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He takes power and makes it domination.

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He takes sex and he makes it lust.

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He takes money and it makes it greed.

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He takes wisdom and makes it earthly knowledge.

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So he can only distort what God has created.

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Because he was aware of who God was, because he has seen God in real before he gets cast out of heaven, the thing is Satan also practices fatherhood.

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Only his fatherhood is fathering orphans and keeping them as orphans while God is a father who receives orphans and changes them into sons and daughters.

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So there is this raising of the children of disobedience who follow the father of lies.

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So when we talk about fatherhood, there are two fathers trying to perpetuate who they are through their sons.

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Only we have a good father who perpetuates his son through us.

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And then there is a father of lies who keeps them as orphans who perpetuates his character.

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So what we're going to talk about today is, okay,

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So now that God is saying, I want my sons to take the place of their fathers, what does it look like for you and I?

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We're not going to look at ourselves as, oh, we are sons.

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We're going to look at, on Father's Day, what would it be if we began to behave like the father?

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On Father's Day, what would it look like if you and I began to behave like fathers?

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And the term fathers and the term sons, just for our knowledge, is gender free.

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It is not limited to male or female.

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So when I say the word father, don't think, ah shucks, I'm a female.

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No, when I say the word sons, don't think, ah shucks, I'm not a guy.

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It's genderless.

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So if we began to think of, okay, so the Father in Heaven, just like he did with Jesus,

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wants us to step into this place where we become fathers to the world, to people, to our family, to the church family,

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so that we can convey what we need to, well then, what does it look like?

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The first thing is, as a father, as a father, your main assignment, as a father is to be a father.

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As a father, your main assignment, as a father, your main assignment is to make, you're good man, thanks so much,

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is to make fathers out of your sons.

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That is so cool, man.

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As a father, your main assignment is to make fathers out of your sons.

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As in, can you make the ones that are in your charge become like him?

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That is your main assignment.

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Our assignment is not to recruit more sons.

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Our assignment is, can I now do what Psalm 45, verse 16 and 17 says, so that you begin to look more like him?

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Our main assignment is to make fathers out of sons.

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Second, as a father, as a father, your children must experience the heavenly father, must experience the heavenly father.

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Father, you can always relax between writings, like just chill out.

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No, not that chill out.

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Give a foot to take a yard nowadays.

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So, as a father, you must experience, as a father, one of your heart's desire is, my children must experience the heavenly father.

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My children must not know or study, but must experience the heavenly father.

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These must be so concrete in your heart, guys.

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The thing is, there's nobody here who cannot operate in this role.

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This must be something you desire, because this is what the father wanted to perpetuate on earth.

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That is why he says, listen, I want you to be conformed to the stature of my son, Jesus Christ, Ephesians 4, 17.

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I want you to be like that. Why? So that then you can go and do what my son did.

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Any questions on that? Any thoughts as in, maybe this isn't really the main thing? It is.

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Any questions?

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Any questions?

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Are you just flexing your arm, not raising your arm?

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Your children must experience the heavenly father. As a father.

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It is to make fathers out of sons.

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It's very difficult when you have to start talking to your digital board. It feels very weird.

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Any questions, guys?

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Yep.

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How we can aid that, yeah. One of the ways we aid, okay, Evan's question is, how do we go about it?

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How do we go about making fathers out of our sons? How do we go about having our children experience the heavenly father?

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Let me first define sons and children. Anyone who is placed in your charge by God is.

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And it doesn't, it's not age relevant. Anyone.

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And so, you then have to, yeah, we'll talk about it. Further down we'll talk about it. Yeah.

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Guys, the thing is, as a father, the capacity to birth and nurture is inherently present in you.

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The capacity to birth and nurture is inherently present in you.

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Jacob, how can you say that? Guys, we've got to go back to the book of Genesis, chapter one.

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What did he say there? What was his primary intent? Here's what I want you to do.

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I want you to go forth. I want you to multiply. I want you to multiply. I want you to go forth.

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I want you to replenish the earth and I want you to subdue. What was his intent for man right off the bat?

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Listen, I made you like me. I want you to go and fill the earth with more like-me's.

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It is inherent in human beings to multiply after his kind and then it gets shattered.

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And another father comes in and he begins to multiply after his kind.

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And then comes Jesus and he gets it back, redeems it, restores it and says, alright, plan A is still functioning.

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There is no plan B. Go now and do exactly what I told Adam to do that he messed up. You can start doing it again.

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What is the first step in doing it? Become like my son because my son is like me.

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So we have a visible image of the invisible father and we become like him.

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As we become like him, it is natural, it is inherent in you to begin to help others become what you have now become.

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It is inherent in you. Hey, you can read all the parenting books you want to and then you have that baby and those books are useless.

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You can use them when you run out of Pampers.

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That's the only use because your child is like no other child.

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And then you begin to find out that inherent in you is this ability to take care of the child.

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That you will not sleep, that you will spend crazy money, that you will think crying is music.

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All kinds of things happen and suddenly you realize that inherent in you is the ability to birth and nurture.

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And it must be after, the only catch is it must be after his kind.

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And the world around you will do everything in its power to help the church raise up the children.

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To help the church raise up the children of God after the world's kind.

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All the education, all the entertainment, everything is geared towards one end.

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Can the people in the church raise their children not after his kind but after the world's kind?

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How do they do it? They do it just like Nebuchadnezzar do it.

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Name your child a different name.

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Give your child the deities that King Nebuchadnezzar said before.

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Thousands of young men and only three stood up.

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The rest of them went for it.

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It is inherent in you.

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But this desire must first grow, right?

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This desire must first grow.

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Hey guys, my mum is 81.

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I do my best to father her.

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That sounds like such a weird statement.

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But I'll do everything in my power to help her experience the father.

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I'll do everything in my power to try and interact with her like the father interacts with me and expects me to interact with her.

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At some point in her life she acknowledged that her son could be someone who could help her and tell her what to do.

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And immediately the role changed.

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Whenever I feel snappish, whenever I feel irritated, whenever I want to shout at her for something she's doing that doesn't fit my fancy,

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could be right but I still don't like it, I'll have to go back into this place that doesn't fit my fancy.

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I'll have to go back into this place that, Jacob, yes you are a son but you need to know how to spiritually father even your mother.

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We don't realize how much God desires this for us and through us into other people's lives.

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Any questions?

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Not everybody has a spiritual father that they can model themselves as.

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You mentioned that.

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We are still trying to see if Martin Luther's Reformation 500 years ago is working properly or not and we still haven't gotten there.

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We still are struggling with the just shall live by faith.

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But a hundred years from now what if there's a sufficient groundswell?

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How do you father somebody who has more?

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Because the authority part can come if it comes and when it comes.

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It is a heart that I'm trying to convey so that they can experience the Heavenly Father.

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It's not just a heart, it's a heart of God.

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It's a heart of God.

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It's a heart that I must convey.

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My mom has more authority over me because she is my mom.

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She has the right to bless me or curse me.

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Thank God she only blesses me.

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But can I convey what the father wants to her?

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Absolutely.

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When she's at my place then the authority structures shift.

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But when I'm at her place she is the authority.

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She is the authority.

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She is the authority.

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She is the authority.

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She is the authority.

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The authority structures shift.

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But when I'm at her place she is an authority over me.

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There are certain things that she always will have over me because I'm her son.

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So unfortunately because either we got it wrong, taught it wrong, behaved wrong, abused it.

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We think of being fathers in terms of authority.

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And God thinks of it as can you convey the attributes of my life?

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Can you convey what you guys talked about on Saturday?

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The authority part is the easy part.

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Hey Mark, take your mask off.

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Hey Mark, put your mask on.

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That's the authority part.

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It's the other part that is difficult.

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That is why the authority part is the easiest to choose.

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As a father you must see the value in an individual's destiny and you must also see God's corporate purpose.

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As a father you must see the value of a person's individual destiny.

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As in, okay, so what is it, oh God, that you have for Rachel?

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What do you, oh God, have for Leah?

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And that's one part of it, an individual destiny.

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And then you take the entire family and say what is their common purpose?

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Because these individual destinies fit into the larger common purpose and it's the same way in the church.

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Suddenly everyone has a full-time job.

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Jacob, this is only for certain people, not for me.

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It is for anyone who belongs to the Father.

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Because this is what the Father is about.

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The Father is continuously thinking like this.

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As a father, discipling and discipline is critical and it has fathering written into the DNA.

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As a father, and this is a tough one, because this is when we decide, no, this is not for me.

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Discipline and discipline is part of the fathering DNA.

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It's part of the fathering DNA.

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It's part of the fathering DNA.

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Jesus talks about it in Hebrews chapter 12, and this is so critical.

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If you leave this out, you will raise children who cannot be fruitful.

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Leave this out and you will raise children, yes, they will grow up, but they will not be fruitful.

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There is no fruitfulness in life without instruction, correction, discipline.

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And it's that the progression is instruction, correction, discipline.

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Some children, you instruct them, they learn.

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Some children don't learn through instruction, so you go from instruction to correction.

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And some children don't learn through correction, then you go from instruction to correction to discipline.

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And God follows that pathway. He invented it.

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What does he do first with Cain?

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He knows where Cain is heading. What does he go and tell Cain?

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Hey Cain, be careful. Sin crouches at your door and is wanting to master you.

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Instruction, correction, discipline. And why, why? For two reasons.

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One, so that I be fruitful.

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So fathers that avoid discipling and discipline through instruction, correction and discipline

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are fathers who will have sons that are grown up, but you are doing them a disservice because they will never be fruitful.

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I don't know anything about gardening, but I believe if you don't prune, they don't prune.

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They don't produce prunes.

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What does a prune look like? No, don't point towards me.

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Oh, a plum is a prune? A dry plum is a prune. My God, I'm learning things today.

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The same thing is all these things I mentioned. Jesus walked this relationship with his father, and he walked out of it.

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And he worked out this relationship with his disciples. Jesus walked this relationship with his father.

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We think Jesus didn't have any discipling, disciplining instruction. Of course he did.

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Hebrews 5 talks about it. That he learned obedience through suffering.

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He had to be instructed. He wasn't a kid who knew everything, downloaded it. He wasn't a robot.

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He wasn't like this digital board. He learned things.

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So Jesus walked in this relationship with his father and then worked out this relationship with disciples, as must you.

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We learn from the father. We then work it out with the people that we are placed with.

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What a cool thing, man. Everyone here has a full-time job.

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And once you take on this full-time job, you won't want too much.

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Because it's a... Ask any parent here and they'll tell you how painful and long it is.

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They don't leave your home till they are... I left home when I was 28.

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And then you have to go back to your parents.

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I left home when I was 28.

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Pardon?

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Yeah.

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Yeah. But the intent is that the sons begin to perpetuate who the father is.

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Here's a cool thing about pastoring versus fathering.

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And I'm not talking about me. I'm talking about us thinking, oh, my job is to pastor others or to shepherd others.

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Guys, fathering only produces remnants.

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Pastoring can produce large churches.

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Fathering produces remnants.

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As in, the strange thing with God is, God always starts with a small group of quality disciples.

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Or lacking quality. But he starts with a small group.

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Remnants represent what God wants everybody to be.

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Remnants represent what God wants everybody to be.

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Remnants represent what God wants everybody to be.

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God puts something into remnants and then he wants to release it to everyone at some stage when the remnant has modeled it properly.

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Now that he has a prototype, he'll say, aha, now we can go.

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That's what he did with Adam and Eve.

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Listen, I'll start with you. I'll walk with you. I'll teach you. I'll come every evening.

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You will spend time with me. I'll tell you things.

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And that began the process.

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Then he goes to Jacob and his family, 12.

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He says, I want to start a nation through you.

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And the 12 becomes 70 and the 70 becomes a million.

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He always starts with a remnant.

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Fathering produces remnant.

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Because you can only handle so many at a time, guys.

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This is why a church that is dependent on one person will collapse.

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This is why it is critical that fathers perpetuate themselves in their sons who now step into the place of their fathers and it begins to spread.

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This is why what may have been my initial responsibility is no longer my responsibility.

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It is yours and you now perpetuate it.

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God wants everybody, but he never starts with everybody.

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I'm telling you stuff that's in the Bible.

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God wants everybody, but he never starts with everybody.

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He starts with everybody.

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He started with the 12.

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Look what's happened, man.

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God wants everybody, but he never starts with everybody.

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And so if you isolate yourself, you miss out on what the father does.

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One of the things the father enjoys doing is to be able to do something.

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One of the things the father enjoys doing is he enjoys increasing your capacity.

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He increases my capacity.

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He increases your capacity.

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So when you start behaving like the father with others, you must aim not at giving them what you have,

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but you must aim at increasing their capacity because they are going to have to handle much more than you are handling.

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So the way I would put it is, as a father, you must increase the capacity to handle inheritance.

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You must increase a person's capacity to handle their inheritance.

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Just imagine if Elijah hadn't done that for Elisha.

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All these noises are coming from the digital board.

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We need to fix that transformer in the back.

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Someone who doesn't know any of this will suddenly believe it because they actually see these fingers.

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Put those fingers down.

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People will think you're real.

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I'm just kidding, Sheldon.

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I owe you one after this.

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This is actually fun.

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By the way, if anyone wants to volunteer for next Sunday, just let me know.

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Any takers?

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No, Sheldon, I think they like you.

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Farhan?

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Is this a self-erasing thingy?

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No?

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Sorry.

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We shouldn't get carried away with this.

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There's more important things happening up front.

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As a father, you must increase a person's capacity for inheritance.

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What if Elijah hadn't treated Elisha well?

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How would he have handled twice of everything?

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He asked for a double portion.

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Elijah was doubtful whether the guy could handle it.

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He said, it's not mine to give.

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If God thinks so, he'll give it to you.

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The only way you'll know that God thinks so is if you see me being taken away.

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He had prepared that guy out of the 52 prophets that followed Elijah that day,

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from Jericho to Gilgal to Bethel to the Jordan.

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There was only one man who kept following, kept following, kept following,

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because in him was a capacity to now receive everything that Elijah had.

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Only he went and asked not for what Elijah had.

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He said, I want twice what you have.

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Elijah is doubtful whether the guy has it.

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What if you and I began to run in a way where the intent is I will increase your capacity

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so that when your turn comes, you will be ready to handle your inheritance?

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Because your inheritance will not be what I have.

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It will be what I have plus whatever God gives you.

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Sometimes the only way to increase capacity is to stretch people and put them in danger.

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Not real danger, what they think is danger.

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I remember the first time my dad allowed me to step out of the train,

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onto the platform and brush my teeth with him, because in India you can do that.

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It's a long story, but basically what you can do is you can step out of the platform

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and you can start brushing your teeth while the train is parked at the platform.

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My mom was really scared of what would happen next.

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My dad's intent was when the train starts moving, I will help you jump into the train.

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It will be like this rite of passage.

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I am all tensed. I have brushed my teeth.

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I put the toothbrush in my pocket and I am waiting.

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This is the moment when you become a man.

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Finally you hear the go, because there were steam engines those days.

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You don't know what that is.

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That was his intent.

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The train starts moving.

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I am like adrenaline rushing through me.

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If you don't get in, the train is gone.

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Then you start singing, if you miss the train I am on, you will know that I am gone.

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There is tension building up.

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Suddenly my dad will come and say, okay, come on in now.

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The train would be moving and you would grab both the things and you would step into it

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and you would feel like you were a man.

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All the danger, all the tension was in here, but in my dad's eyes it was,

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no son, don't worry, I got your back.

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He would make sure that as I stepped in he was right there.

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There was no way I could fall.

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My mom would be screaming, saying, what's wrong with you?

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I said, I am fine.

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I was like, what's wrong with you?

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He brushed his teeth inside the train and then spit out of the window.

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Thank God my mom doesn't follow me on live stream.

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So you can only stretch a person's capacity for inheritance by putting them in a place

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where they are actually stretched and that is another part of fatherhood.

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Any questions?

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Because if I don't and if you don't increase a person's capacity for inheritance,

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they will only know how to handle what you handle now.

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So I think that's the first thing.

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The second thing is that you have to be able to do it.

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You have to be able to do it.

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You have to be able to do it.

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You have to be able to do it.

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So you can only stretch a person's capacity for inheritance.

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They will only know how to handle what you handle now.

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But the years ahead are far greater.

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It will break them.

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Guys, it broke Solomon.

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It broke Solomon.

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David gave him everything.

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He prepared the nuts and the bolts and the timber

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and he got everything ready for the building of the temple.

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But what he forgot was to build his son.

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He didn't have the ability to handle what the father gave him.

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He did not have the ability to handle what was awaiting him later

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after his father had died.

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And it broke that man because he could not handle his inheritance.

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Jesus prepared inheritors.

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Jesus prepared inheritors.

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We call them disciples. We call them apostles.

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Jesus prepared inheritors who could invest what he gave them

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and then produce such a momentum after he left

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that a greater harvest happened.

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Jesus prepared inheritors.

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This is why you hear stuff like,

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Master, but we have only two loaves and five fish.

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What do we do?

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I don't know. You feed them.

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Five thousand people. You feed them.

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Different situations he puts them in.

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I want you to go and when you go there,

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there will be a donkey tied outside a man's house

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and if the man comes and asks you why you are taking the donkey,

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just tell him that, am I going out of the range?

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Just tell him that the Master has need for them.

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And he sends them off.

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Then he decides, okay, let's send you out two by two

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to preach, to heal, to cleanse lepers,

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to raise the dead, to heal the sick. Go.

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He doesn't go with them.

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But they come back and they come back rejoicing,

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saying demons left when we spoke.

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You can't imagine the joy that Jesus would have felt.

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Because the same joy that the father had over Jesus

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when he said, this is my son who is precious in my sight,

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beloved in my sight, listen to him.

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The same Jesus is now saying, heaven was rejoicing

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and Satan fell like lightning.

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But do not be caught up that you cast out demons,

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but your names are written in the book of life.

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And he is thrilled at his disciples,

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knowing that one of them will betray him

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and that all of them will run away.

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But he is thrilled.

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Because he formed inheritors.

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The process of formation may be scary,

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but the intent is, can I create inheritors?

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Because I'm going to leave soon.

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When I leave soon, I'm speaking about Jesus now, not me.

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Because Derek and Don may come back saying,

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okay, I want to be the next pastor.

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So Derek, Don, stay there.

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The thing is, Jesus prepared inheritors

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who could invest what he gave them

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to produce a momentum that would end up

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in a greater harvest.

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So much so that Jesus goes as far as to say in John 14, 12,

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that listen, you guys need to know

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that you will do greater works than I have done

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because I'm going to the Father.

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Sorry?

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Jesus prepared inheritors who could invest what he gave them

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to produce a momentum that would end up in a greater harvest.

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Jesus prepared inheritors who could invest what he gave them

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to produce a momentum that would result in a greater harvest

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than he himself accomplished.

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We're talking about the Son of God.

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Nuts, eh?

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And when you work as fathers, know that each of you

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will have different traits that nobody else can give to someone

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in your charge than you.

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Some of you will be wealth creators.

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Anything you touch turns to gold.

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The ones that God places in your lives will inherit that and more.

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Some of you will know how to war spiritually.

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Why? Because the one that you were raised under

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knows how to war spiritually.

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Some of you will have the ability to plumb the wisdom of God.

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And so you end up being some of the wisest people

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on earth.

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Like the tribes of Jacob, you find that each tribe has a trait,

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and that trait is strongly expressed in the clan for the rest of eternity.

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Judah, praise, forefront, warrior.

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Benjamin, ravenous wolf.

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Naphtali, brimming with wealth.

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Joseph, fruitful bow that spreads over fences and walls.

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When Jesus said, you will do greater works than this,

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it was not Jesus saying, okay, so I'm gone now, you can continue.

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You know what he was saying?

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You'll do greater works than this because I'm going to the Father

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who is greater than me, and I'll continue to do these works through you.

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But I put enough on you to cause this momentum to really bring in a great harvest.

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Guys, if we do this, in a couple of generations, we can actually affect nations.

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And it sounds like such a hollow claim, Jacob.

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You can just say it because you won't be here in a couple of generations.

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You'll probably be dead in the next 50 years.

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The thing is, you've got to look into February 2005, 2006.

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Who would have ever thought that this motley crew would be where we are today?

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Who would have ever thought?

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Who would have ever thought that we'd have an influence in nations?

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Not me, even though I dreamt of it, never thought it would be possible,

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which is why I read out Philippians 1, 3 to 6.

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I thank God every day for each of you.

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I don't thank God every day for each of you.

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That's Paul's words. What I mean is I'm super thankful.

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Because this itself is impossible.

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Let's look at John 14.

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Look at a few verses and then we'll end.

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John 14.

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Sheldon, you're doing okay?

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You want a replacement?

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You're okay, huh?

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John 14.

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Verse 8.

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Verse 8.

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So here's my question to you guys.

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What if someone came and said to you,

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Hey Diana, show me the father and I'll be content.

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What if someone said to you, Manoj, show me the father and I'll be content.

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What would your reply be?

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I just hope that one day we'll be able to reply like this.

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I can't reply like this, but I long for it.

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I was reading it and I was thinking to myself,

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My God, Father, please, please, please.

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One day, not in the distant future when my feet are in the grave while I'm going up.

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It's like, can I do it in the next little while?

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Where if someone comes and says to me,

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Hey Jacob, show us the father and then we'll be content.

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And my reply would be,

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Believe me, I'm in the father and the father is in me.

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This is not a pipe dream.

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I really want this to happen for us.

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Believe me, I'm in the father and the father is in me.

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That's not borrowing a Jesus statement.

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That is the truth.

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If you read John 17, verse 21, if you read Colossians 1, verse 27,

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it says the father is in me and I'm in the father.

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It already says that.

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I'm not plagiarizing a Jesus phrase.

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I'm telling you what is actually true.

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Colossians 1, verse 27, the hope of glory Christ in me.

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And John 17, verse 21, Father, just as I'm in you and you are in me,

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can they also be in me so that they are in you?

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This is the true statement.

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What if one day this idea of perpetuating the father and reflecting him through us

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gets to a point where we can say that believe me,

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I'm in the father and the father is in me.

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And then Philip asks the question and Jesus goes further.

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What if you could say this?

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Just imagine this. This is mind-blowing.

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Would you be able to say, to see me is to see the father.

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If you really knew me, you would know the father as well.

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To see me is to see the father.

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If you really knew me, you would know the father as well.

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Proposterous to even think of this, but absolutely possible.

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Any questions, any comments?

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The problem with masks is I don't know whether you're disbelieving, incredulous, happy, believing.

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We should have these kind of messages out there so you don't have to wear masks.

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Any questions?

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Would I be able to say to see me is to see the father?

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If you really knew me, you would know my father as well.

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So how can you ask where is the father?

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What a ridiculous statement to make as humans.

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But what if there are areas in your life where you can do this?

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John 12, 44, 45?

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John 12, 44, 45?

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Then Jesus cried out,

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When a man believes in me, he does not believe in me only

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but in the one who sent me.

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When he looks at me, he sees the one who sent me.

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God, when he looks at me, he sees the one who sent me.

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When a man believes in me, he does not just believe in me

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but he believes in the one who sent me.

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When he looks at me, he does not just see me, he sees the one who sent me!

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Come on, man!

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Please don't put this in the, please don't, this disease called futurism postpones every statement like this into the future saying one day.

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No! Today is the day of the suns. Not one day.

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You're okay, Sheldon? Do you want to take a break?

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Okay, not one day. I want this. I want this! Not just for me.

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Because it's pointless when one person does it. When people do it.

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There was something about the early church which had all kinds of problems, all kinds of sins.

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But there was something about them that was distinctive in that two things happened to them.

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One, people joined them by the thousands. Two, people persecuted them.

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There was something distinctive about them.

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It was that they were different from the normal. Jesus was evident.

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One more statement and we can close.

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John 14 verse 10. Am I good on batteries?

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John 14, 10.

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The first part was about character, now we move to verse 10.

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And verse 10 says,

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Don't you believe that I am in the Father and that the Father is in me?

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The words I say to you are not just my own. Rather it's the Father living in me who is doing this work.

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Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me.

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Or at least believe on the evidence of these miracles themselves.

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So here's the other catch now.

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If we say that this is the one we are perpetuating, the Father, then here's what is being said.

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Surely you believe that I am the Father and the Father is in me.

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And this is true. 1 Corinthians 6, 17 says, we become one with the Spirit of God.

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Romans 8, 15 and 16 says, He has given us His Spirit that allows us to cry out,

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that we are one with the Spirit of God, that we are one with the Spirit of God,

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and that the Father lives in us and we have become one with Him.

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So here's the question then.

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Can people believe that the Father is in me and I in the Father because they see the works that I do?

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And the answer is at present, no.

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What works are we talking about?

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We're not talking about soup and sandwich.

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We're talking about signs, miracles and wonders.

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And so the question is, so this is the statement I'm making.

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If people can't believe that the Father and you are one, can they believe what they see?

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Can they believe by the works you do?

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Go to John chapter 10, verse 37 and 38.

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I'm just showing us where we horribly fall short right now.

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John chapter 10, verse 37 and 38.

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Look at the statement Jesus is making.

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It's like almost a provocative, challenging statement.

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Do not believe me unless I do what my Father does.

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Do not believe me, He's saying.

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Do not believe me unless I do what my Father does.

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But if I do it, even though you do not believe me, believe the miracles that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I in the Father.

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Guys, one of the evidences of the Father in you and you in the Father is that there should be works and we don't have it.

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But we can't do nothing about it.

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Hexedad begin to take a couple of steps that Jesus mentions here so that he can begin this process.

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But he literally says, you don't need to believe in me if I don't do any works.

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Any questions, any thoughts?

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Jesus has gone to the Father.

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He has given me the same work to do that He has been doing.

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Let me say that slowly. Just pay attention to another five minutes.

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We should be done.

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Jesus has gone to the Father.

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He has given me the work that He was doing to finish.

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Please understand that.

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That He has given us the work that He could have finished.

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He could have finished everything in three and a half years, but He decided not to.

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He has left work for us to do.

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This is your main work.

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Jesus has gone to the Father.

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He has given me the same work to do that He had been doing.

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And in chapter 14, verse 12, He tells me the two things that I require to be able to do the same things.

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Chapter 14, verse 12.

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I tell you the truth.

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I know this sounds terribly simple, but what can we do?

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Jesus is simple.

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I tell you the truth.

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Anyone who has faith in Me will do what I have been doing.

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I'm not taking anything out of context.

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It's one of the few messages I'm actually staying in context.

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I tell you the truth.

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Anyone who has faith in Me will do what I'm doing.

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Or He's saying, listen, you can have the assurance, Jacob, that if you trusted Me,

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that you will end up doing not only what Jesus was doing,

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you will do even greater things.

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Because keep reading.

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I tell you the truth.

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Anyone who has faith in Me will do what I've been doing.

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He will do even greater things than these because I'm going to the Father.

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So that's the first point.

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If you trust Him, you can do the same things.

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And He says, don't tell people to believe you if you can't do the works the Father is doing.

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These are not categorical blanket statements because He says, believe My words.

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And then He says, if they don't believe your words, tell them to believe My works.

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If you don't do the works My Father does, then don't ask them to believe you.

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So what else do we need to do?

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The second thing He says is, listen, ask anything in My name.

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Look at verse 13.

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I will do whatever you ask in My name so that the Son may bring glory to the Father.

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So how does that work?

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That's the last point.

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You are invited to come to the Father in the name of Jesus with the promise of enjoying the same access to God that Jesus enjoys.

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Let me say that again.

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I have an invitation, a standing invitation for the rest of eternity to come to the Father in the name of Jesus Christ

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with the promise of enjoying the same access that Jesus presently has with God.

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This is so ridiculous that it's hard to believe.

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Let me say that one last time.

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I am invited and I have a standing invitation to come to the Father in the name of Jesus

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with the promise of enjoying the same access that Jesus presently has with the Father.

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And then He goes on to say that, listen, ask anything in My name.

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And so let me just write this down.

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What it means when He says ask anything in My name.

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Ask as if I were asking.

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As in Jesus is saying, ask as if I were asking.

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And the second statement He's trying to make in that statement is ask what I would ask.

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Two things.

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Ask as if I were asking.

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And Jesus never asked anything without faith or trust in His Father.

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And ask as if I would ask.

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This is why Saturday's teaching, yesterday night's teaching is so critical.

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If you can understand those characteristics of God, it will be very hard to ask a miss.

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Ask as if I were asking, Jesus is saying.

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Hey Jacob, ask as if I were asking.

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Ask what I would ask.

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From now on, whatever you request along the lines of who I am and what I'm doing,

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whatever you ask along the lines of who I am and what I'm doing,

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who I am and what I'm doing,

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I'll do it for you.

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I'll do it for you.

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These are the three things that are difficult to fathom.

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But these are the three things we're going to spend a lot of time trying to figure out

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so that we can be what God wants us to be.

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We can show them the Father.

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Any questions?

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Let me sum that up.

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To ask, that clock is wrong, right?

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It's showing 8 o'clock.

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What a comfort it was all this time.

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John 14 13.

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And I will do whatever you ask in my name so that the Son may bring glory to the Father.

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You may ask me for anything in my name and I will do it.

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The Greek says the same thing.

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I will do whatever you ask in my name so that the Son may bring glory to the Father.

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You may ask me for anything in my name and I will do it.

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What is he saying?

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Hey Jacob, ask as if I were asking.

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Jacob, ask what I would ask.

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Jacob, ask based on who I am.

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Jacob, ask what I am doing.

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And if you do this, and if you ask with faith, I guarantee you I will do whatever you ask.

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Then you can say to people, ah you don't believe my words, believe my works.

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Jesus did this with the Pharisees when they crowded around the man who he forgave.

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He said, oh so you think that the Son of Man does not have the right to forgive sins?

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I do. But just so you know that this is just not talk, I say to you, pick up your bed and walk.

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And he walked.

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Words? They didn't believe it. Works? What could they do?

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Once you show people works, there is only three options.

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Believe, stone you, or work.

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Or walk away.

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Those are the only three options.

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Any questions? Because I'm done.

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Any questions guys? Please ask questions.

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This sounds terribly simple, but what can you do?

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You've got to press in, eh?

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And suddenly it will break forth guys.

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Suddenly it will break forth.

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Suddenly it will break forth.

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These are precious things.

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Once they start happening, if you don't have the character of God,

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if you don't have the ability to inherit this, it will ruin this church, destroy this church.

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So don't think that he is not at work.

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He is at work changing our character, making us absolutely unbothered about how we look, how people perceive.

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He is just bringing us to a place where when this begins to break,

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it will not affect your head.

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It will not go to my head.

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Any questions?

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Okay. It's 3.46.

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One of the things I do is sometimes I go to the book of John,

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and I take what Jesus is saying about the Father.

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Hey, can I have a little more volume?

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I take what I'm doing with the Father, what Jesus is saying to the Father,

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and then I write it in my own words as if I was saying it to the Father.

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That really helps because it puts you in a place where Jesus, the perfect Son, was,

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and it puts you in a relationship with the Father.

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So I'm just reading an excerpt, and then we'll put some of it on the board

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and just commit to the Father with regard to this.

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So this was something I'd written.

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Father, shine a light on your splendor in me.

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Father, shine a light on your glory or your splendor in me.

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As in, each of us has a glory that God has now given us as born-again believers.

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Shine your light on your splendor in me.

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I will spell out your character in detail to the men and women that you give me.

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These are things that Jesus said in John, part of it from the NIV, part of it from the message.

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I will spell out your character in detail to the men and women that you give me.

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Any of us can adopt this and put it for ourselves.

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Next one.

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Lord, put my life on display for them.

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Everything I give them must be first-hand from you.

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Empower me by your Spirit to teach them your word.

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I want to glorify you on earth by completing down to the last detail what you assigned me to do.

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I joyfully come to consecrate myself for the mission you have given me and for those that you have placed in my care.

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Everything mine is yours and everything yours, O God, is mine.

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It's a very hard sentence, eh? It's not easy.

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Everything mine is yours and everything yours is mine. Not easy.

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Father, you are in me and I in you.

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You love me the same way you love your Son.

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As I mature, you will give the godless world evidence of your presence and oneness in me.

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You knew me and loved me long before I was formed.

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Righteous Father, the world hasn't known you, but I have known you.

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I so want to make your very being known to them, who you are and how you do,

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so that your life and love towards me might become something they experience.

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All this is from John 17.

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Everything I do and say must be a unique Father-Son operation, coming out of Father and Son intimacies and knowledge.

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No one knows me the way you do, Father, and I want to know you, Father, the way Jesus does.

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And I will not keep it to myself. I am ready to go over it line by line with anyone willing to listen, walk, work and learn.

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Matthew 11.26

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I can't independently do a thing. I can only do what I see you doing, Father.

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What you do, I will do also.

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Father, you love me your Son, and you include me in everything you are doing around me, and I haven't seen the half of it yet.

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I align myself with you, Father, and the voice of your Son.

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I can't do a solitary thing on my own. I listen, then I decide.

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I can trust my decision if I am not out to get my own way, but only to carry out your orders.

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I won't and I don't want to speak words on my own authority and make them up.

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Rather, it will be you, Father, who will craft each word, so that it may become an act or an event or work that reveals your presence.

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Then they will see the words, believe the words and see the doer, you.

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They will recognize that you are in me and I am in you.

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Unless I am dead to the world, I will not be anything but a grain of wheat.

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But if I am dead and buried to the world, I will sprout and reproduce your life many times over.

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I must let go of my life, recklessly abandoning myself into your love.

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Oh, how I want to participate in your life, Father, here on earth, while turning my back on the world.

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These are all Jesus' words that you now make yours.

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We don't want to.

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We must become like him, period.

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So look at this, these verses on the board and let's in our own way dedicate ourselves to this.

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It's only on one side.

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Hey, Shailen, you can... Thanks, man. It's a big deal.

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Your hands are okay?

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We'll reward you in heaven.

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Okay.

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Okay, so guys, this is what I want us to find an ability to commit to.

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Father, you are in me and I in you.

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Father, you are in me and I in you.

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You knew me and loved me before I was formed.

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Righteous Father, the world hasn't known you, but I've known you.

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I so want to make your very being known to them, who you are and how you do,

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so that your life and love towards me might become something they experience.

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Everything I do and say must be a unique father-son operation.

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Coming out of father-son intimacy is a knowledge.

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No one knows me the way you do, Father, and I want to know you, Father, the way Jesus does.

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And I will not keep it to myself.

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I'm ready to go over it line by line with anyone willing to listen, walk, work and learn.

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Can you just go over that for a couple of minutes?

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And then we'll end.

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Even pondering on this for a week would change you.

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Just the first line is so hard to wrap my head around or my heart around.

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Just pick two sentences out of the three.

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One is, I'm not going to be able to do it.

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I'm going to be able to do it.

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I'm going to be able to do it.

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Just pick two sentences out of this for now.

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Just two. It's too much.

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Just two.

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Or even half sentences, because some of the blooming sentences are so long.

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Meaning the way I put them.

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Okay, I pick my two. You pick your two.

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Tony, come up.

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Sheldon, can you sit on the piano if your hands are okay?

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Emily, come up.

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Praful, if you can pull up.

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Good, good.

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Good, good.

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Good, good.

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Good, good.

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Praful, if you can pull up.

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Good, good, father.

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Did you pick out two sentences?

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Here were my two sentences.

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Father, you are in me and I am in you.

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Because I find that just mind-defying.

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And then the second one was,

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everything I do must come out of a unique father-son operation.

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Those are the two things that I'll hold on to for the rest of this week.

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And use it as part of my devotion every morning.

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These are two things that I'll go over.

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Because I want change, man. I want to be like him.

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Everybody will benefit if we be like him.

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Everybody around us.

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In our dealings with people, our approach, our functioning,

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everything changes.

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So before we leave, what's his name? We'll put it back.

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We can't call him Praful anymore, we call him Boss.

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So Boss will put it back on the screen before you leave.

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So even as you are leaving, you can see it.

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So let's sing this song.

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And let everything we've done, heard, learned,

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and his very presence in our midst cause us to give him worship,

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though we can't sing out loud.

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Yeah, another week of this, then we can start singing.

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Go ahead, Emily.

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A thousand stories of what they think you're like

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But I've heard the tender whisper of love

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In the dead of night

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And you tell me that you're pleasing that I'm never alone

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All right, you guys, let's start again.

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This is not the closing song.

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This is something we're singing to the father, right?

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This is the problem with this last song.

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It's like, oh, finally.

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And then we can go home and we hope he doesn't sing it twice.

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So let's start again.

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Just go over it one more time.

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Okay, let's go.

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I've heard a thousand stories of what they think you're like

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But we know better, guys, we know better.

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But I've heard the tender whisper of love

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In the dead of night

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And you tell me that you're pleasing that I'm never alone

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You're a good, good father

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It's who you are

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And I am loved by you

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Just like you love your son, Jesus

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It's who I am

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It's who I am

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I've seen many searching for answers

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Far and wide

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But I know we're all searching for answers

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Only you provide, cause you know

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Just what we need before we

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Say your word

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You're a good, good father

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It's who you are

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You're a good father

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It's who you are

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And I am loved by you

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It's who I am

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You are perfect in all of your ways

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Hallelujah!

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You are perfect in all of your ways

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You are perfect in all of your ways

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To us

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You are perfect

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You are perfect in all of your ways

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You are perfect in all of your ways

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You are perfect in all of your ways

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To us

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Undeniable!

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Love so undeniable

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I can hardly speak

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Peace so unexplainable

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I can hardly think as you call me

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People still as you call me

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Deeper still as you call me

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Deeper still into love

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Love, love, you're a good, good father

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It's who you are

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And I am loved by you

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It's who I am

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You're a good, good father

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It's who you are

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And I am loved by you

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It's who I am

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It's who I am

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Hallelujah!

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Thank you!

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Father, you are a good, good father

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You have always been that way, Lord

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Now let others see you in us

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You in us and we in you

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May others, may the world see this

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You are perfect in all of your ways

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May others, may the world see this

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And help us to be you

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And make sons and daughters, oh God, sons for you

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So that we prepare to have your inheritance, oh God

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And train them too to have the inheritance from you

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Wisdom, power, love, faith

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Everything that you have is now ours

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Isn't that amazing?

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God now help us to live this

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Help us to live this

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Help us to live this, Lord

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Amen!

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Thank you, Sue